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New Hybrid Identities: Performing Race, Gender, Nation, Sexuality 1 Preface 3 Introduction: Dispora, New Hybrid Identities, and the Performance of Citizenship 15 The Search for Divine Justice 29 Making Up Memory: Reflections of a Writer in New York City 39 Choteo/Camp Style Politics: Carmelita Tropicana’s Performance of Self-Enactment 53 Hybrid Genres, Performed Subjectivities: The Revoicing of Public Oratory in the Moroccan Marketplace 86 Alter Idem/Performing Personae 91 Kill 97 States of Emergency 109 Railtime 125 Negotiating Hybridity: Native Women’s Performance as Cultural Persistence 143 ¡Haasta no Verte, Aztlan! 151 Daugthers of Gandhi: Africanness, Indianess, and Brazilianness in the Bahian Carnival 171 Performing Resistence: Negotiating Gender Roles in the Social Drama of a Labor Strike 187 Vodou and Nationialism: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth Century Haiti 219 Diamela Eltit: Clearing Space for Critical Peformance 241 Speaking Others, Practicing Selves: Representational Practices of Battered Immigrant Women in Apna Ghar (“Our Home”) 267 Notes on the Completion of Potentiality 275 Writing (and) Independence: Gayatri Spivak and the Dark Continent of Écriture Feminíne 287 Public Forum The Shock of Arrival: Body, Memory, Desire in Asian-Americna Art Disclosure, Silences, Agency: African Female Genital Circumcision 339 Review and Resources |